The situation
A client’s plan to send staff to work in France
A Wrocław company that installs industrial refrigeration has won a contract at a food plant near Lyon. It will send eight technicians for about five months from March, with a site manager rotating in and out. The managing director asks the firm what must be in place in France before the first van leaves.
The Directive gives the frame and France fills in the detail. Each technician needs the right pay under French rules, the declaration must be made, a representative named and social security settled with A1 certificates. The hours go on pinning down each French requirement and turning it into a checklist the client can run.
What the research has to settle
The rules behind the answer
- Host-country terms apply from day one
- Under the Posting of Workers Directive, as amended in 2018, posted workers are entitled to the host country’s core terms, including remuneration as set by its law and generally applicable collective agreements, not only the minimum wage.
- Long postings bring in more
- After 12 months, or 18 after a motivated notification, almost all of the host country’s employment law applies. Replacing one worker with another on the same task does not restart the clock.
- France requires a prior declaration
- Before the work starts, the employer must declare the posting online to the French labour inspectorate and appoint a representative in France. French law also puts verification duties on the French customer. The research confirms the documents to keep on site.
- Social security can stay in Poland
- Under Regulation 883/2004, a posted worker can remain under Polish social security for an anticipated posting of up to 24 months, if the conditions are met. The A1 certificate issued by ZUS is the proof.
How it runs in azta
From the question to the document
The question, as you would type it
Polish employer posts eight refrigeration technicians to a client site near Lyon for five months. What pay must they receive, what declaration and documents does France require before work starts, what are the French customer’s duties, and how is social security handled?
You start with
A client’s plan to send staff to work in France
- 01
Describe the posting
Give the employer, the work, the number of workers and the dates. azta researches the Directive, the French labour code and the coordination regulations.
Cited research· Free - 02
Read the French provisions
Open each cited provision of French law in the original, with its in-force status.
Atlas statute reader - 03
Draft the advice and the checklist
Ask for an advice note in Polish and a checklist ordered by deadline. Edit both in Canvas.
Canvas · Ask azta· Pro - 04
Send it to the client
Export to Word and send. The checklist can go straight to the client’s site manager.
Word export· Pro You send
Advice on the posting rules, French notifications and social security, with a checklist
What you get
Advice on the posting rules, French notifications and social security, with a checklist
Advice note · draft
Posting technicians to the Lyon site: what to put in place
Pay. For the time in France, each technician must receive at least the remuneration French law and the applicable collective agreement require for the work, including allowances that form part of pay. Compare each technician’s package with that standard before departure.
Before work starts. Declare the posting online for each technician and name a representative in France who can deal with the labour inspectorate. Keep the employment contracts, pay slips and A1 certificates available in French for inspection. Give the French customer a copy of the declaration.
Social security. Apply to ZUS for an A1 certificate for each technician. Contributions continue in Poland for the duration of the posting.
Outcomes on your numbers
What azta is worth on this task
Pro pays for itself after
9 minutes a month
At €180 an hour, that is all the time Pro (€27 a month) has to take off your desk to cover its price.
Example figures. Replace them with your own.
- Hours back a year
- 50
- Capacity at your rate
- €9,072
- More posting advice notes a quarter
- 3.2
- Return on Pro
- 28×
- Research
- Drafting
- Your review
A scenario you set, not a promise. The hours that come back go to another client, or deeper into this one.
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Book a demoWhat stays with you
- Checking each technician’s pay package against the French standard.
- Confirming the sector rules for the specific site with the client.
- The advice and its sign-off.
Frequently asked questions
- Does azta make the French declaration?
- No. It researches what the declaration must contain and drafts the checklist. The client or its representative files it.
- Does it hold French collective agreements?
- It holds French legislation and case law. Upload the applicable collective agreement and azta reads it alongside the law.
- Can it cover postings to other countries?
- Yes. The Directive is common to the EU, and azta researches each host country’s national rules the same way.
